The Works of Mrs. Hemans: With a Memoir of Her Life

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The Works of Mrs. Hemans: With a Memoir of Her Life
Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
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Note 3, pa^e 161, lines 27 and 28.
Consummate work! the noblest and the last Of Grecian freedom,, ere her reign was past, " Le Torso d'Hercule parolt an des demiers ouvrages par- faits que I'art ait produit en Grece, avant la perte de sa liberty.
Car apr^s que la Grece fut r^uite en province Romaine, This- 168 THE RESTORATION, ETC. ^N0TE8.
toire ne fait mention d'aucun artiste c^^bre de cette nation, juaqu'aux temps du Triumvirat Bomain." — Winckelmann, ibid., tODL ii. p. 250.
Note 4, page
... 162, Une 26.
Nor yields one moan to torture or to death, ** It is not in the same manner, in the agonised limbs or in the convulsed muscles of the Laocoon, that the secret grace of its composition resides ; it is in the majestic air of the head, which has not yielded to sv^ering, and in the deep serenity of the forehead, which seems to be still superior to all its afflic- tlojiSy and significant of a mind that cannot be subdued." — Allison's Essays^ vol. ii. p. 400.
** Laocoon nous ofire le spectacle de la nature humaine dans la plus grande douleur dont elle soit susceptible, sous Timage d'un homme qui t&che de rassembler centre elle toute la force de Tesprit.


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